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Issuer | Rome › Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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Emperor |
Trajan (Marcus Ulpius Traianus) (98-117)
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Type | Standard circulation coin |
Years | 103-111 |
Value | 1 Sestertius = ¼ Denarius |
Currency | Denarius, Reform of Augustus (27 BC – AD 215) |
Composition | Bronze |
Weight | 22.1 g |
Diameter | 32.5 mm |
Shape | Round (irregular) |
Technique | Hammered |
Demonetized | Yes |
Number | N# 253540 |
References |
RIC II# 577 (sestertius),
Harold Mattingly, Edward Allen Sydenham, Ian Carradice, Theodore Vern Buttrey; 1926. The Roman Imperial Coinage / Volume 2. Vespasian to Hadrian (AD 96 –138). Spink & Son, London, United Kingdom.
OCRE# ric.2.tr.577_sestertius
Online Coins of the Roman Empire (http://numismatics.org/ocre/)
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Bust of Trajan, laureate, draped, right.
Script: Latin
Lettering: IMP CAES NERVAE TRAIANO AVG GER DAC P M TR P COS V P P
Translation:
Imperator, Caesar, Nervae Traiano Augustus, Germanicus, Dacicus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribunicia Potestate, Consul Quintum, Pater Patriae.
Supreme commander (Imperator), Caesar, of Nerva Trajan, emperor (Augustus), conqueror of the Germans, conqueror of the Dacians, high priest, holder of tribunician power, consul for the fifth time, father of the nation.
Jupiter seated in center of octastyle temple; architrave decorated with figure of Jupiter among other figures; figure holding spear between two Victories on roof.
Script: Latin
Lettering: S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI S C
Translation:
Senatus Populusque Romanus Optimo Principi. Senatus Consultum.
The senate and the Roman people to the best of princes. Decree of the senate.
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Date | VG | F | VF | XF | AU | UNC | ||||||||
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Undetermined | ||||||||||||||
ND (103-111) | altar in front | |||||||||||||
ND (103-111) | no altar |
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